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Thu, 07 Aug 2008
To Matthew Garrett.
Summary: Almost all problems caused by bugs in Linux, one problem caused by BIOS vendors interpreting the ACPI specification differently to the Linux implementation and trivially worked around. No sabotage.Except the fact, that it only works for 'Windows XXXX' OSI label. A short analogy. Before. Several years ago there were no problems with ndiswrapper driver with wireless NICs. More years ago there were no problems with reverse engineered drivers for ATA/IDE and usual NICs. Now. Try to tell that you do not support Linux as a server platform, so you will not provide driver or spec for your SATA/SCSI controller or NIC. Some companies even join continual development of the reverse engineered drivers (wireless, ethernet, (s)ata/ide... But of course there are exceptions, no need to make it a red point. Sorry, but we do not support 'Linux' ACPI label in OS/OSI because vendors will not test it and other similar ... is just a dubious excuse not to push them hard enough. The most exciting example is atheros wireless driver situation. /devel/other :: Link / Comments () |